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  <div class="section" id="the-new-tcl-parser">
<span id="tcl"></span><h1>The new Tcl parser<a class="headerlink" href="#the-new-tcl-parser" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<p>Tcl parser is rewritten as a token oriented parser to support
namespace.  It was line oriented parser. Some incompatibility between
Exuberant-ctags is introduced in the rewriting.</p>
<p>The line oriented parser captures <cite>class</cite>, <cite>public|protected|private
method</cite>.  They are definitions in ITcl and TclOO. The new token oriented Tcl
parser ignores them.  Instead ITcl and TclOO subparser running on Tcl base
parser capture them.</p>
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<h2>Known bugs<a class="headerlink" href="#known-bugs" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<h3>Full qualified tags<a class="headerlink" href="#full-qualified-tags" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>The separator used in full qualified tags should be <cite>::</cite> but <cite>.</cite> is
used.</p>
<p>A ITcl or TclOO class <cite>C</cite> can be defined in a Tcl namespace <cite>N</cite>:</p>
<div class="highlight-Tcl"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">namespace</span> eval N <span class="k">{</span>
    <span class="nv">oo</span><span class="o">::</span>class create C <span class="k">{</span>
    <span class="k">}</span>
<span class="k">}</span>
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<p>When <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--extras=+q</span></code> is given, currently ctags reports:</p>
<div class="highlight-default"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">N</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">C</span> <span class="o">...</span>
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<p>This should be:</p>
<div class="highlight-default"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">N</span><span class="p">::</span><span class="n">C</span> <span class="o">...</span>
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<p>Much work is needed to fix this.</p>
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<h3>Nested procs<a class="headerlink" href="#nested-procs" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p><cite>proc</cite> defined in a <cite>proc</cite> cannot be captured well.
This is a regression.</p>
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